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U<J IHE Recorder. ' i BY DRAYTON 4s McORACKEN, AIKEN, S. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1882. VOL. I. NO. 45. Everythin*? Old. Why talk bo much of the ‘ ‘old” in art J There’a nothin« new in the land: The eame old earth, the name old sea, And the eame bright yellow eand 1 There’s no other way than to dig, and dig, For the silver and the gold; And the nt w but eeeineth, to him who dream* eth, For the new is but the old. For centuries, green ; immortal green, Has man led the monnUin sides; While ships go out and ships come in. With the oldest of old tides. There’s no other love but the old, old love, With its bitter-sweet unrest; The eame In form, through calm and storm, That stirred old Adam's breast. The same old moon, with its shining face, Repeated o'er and o,er; The same old stare that sang for joy When chaos wj i*- no more. There’s no other way to live end learn, But the way of eye and ear— As th ■ prophets learned, when the spirit burned In their hearts while dwelling here. The fire we bni t upon our hearths— It is only now in name; Though it leaps aud leaps in a youth ul way^ ’Tis part of an ancient flame, There’s no other way to get orb's bread But to plant in the dusky mold; 8o the new but seejp/jih, to him who dream- eth— Aye, th® hew is but th- 1 old I —Urs. M. A. Kidder. “THE KINfi’S BUSINESS." Slowly and aimlessly ou of the vil lage wandered poor, half-witted Nut that pleasant summer afternoon, lie had no particular destination, “ only goin’ somewhere ”—hi* rsply always to any question in regard to his move ments. Daring the morning he had been parading tbo village street, his hat trimmed luxuriantly with feathers, while ho sounded forth his own praise through the medium of a tin horn. Of coarse he had attracted attention. A small army of urchins had surrounded him, front and rear, and he had taken their shouts and teasing remarks for applause and admiration. But n ow his grandeur was gona One by one his followers had forsaken him, until at last he was “left alone in his glory,” and with poor Nat, like tho rest of ns, what does glory amount to when there are none to witness ? And so he moved onward in his drift ing, uncertain way across the creek at the edge of the village, up the hill, un til his stalwart form stood out against the sky—for Nat was strong in body though weak in mind ; then he passed down on tbo other side to where the road entered a forest whioty stretched for miles away. It was hen® quiet and lonely, but Nat fancied this. He ooca- nonallv liked to escape fr< voices Vud. human habitati. away by himself and talk with tire birds, the trees and the flowers. Here in the wood the wild vagaries of his brain found full play. Here no one disputed his claims to greatness, no one denied his being a noted general, a gifted ora tor or mu-ioian, when the fancy seized him to be such. In fact Nat always had “greatness thrust upon him;” he was never an ordinary man in his own estimation, and ho was not now. But on this occasion a new fancy had taken possession of him—he was on business for the King. What King, or what was the particular business he did not precisely know, but he had derived his idea from varions sermons he had heard at the village church and Sunday- S hool, which he attended with scrupu- ua punctuality through all weathers, aud although he understood but little of the pioceedings, yet chance sentences had fastened themselves on his sluggish brain. 11 I’m on business for the King,” he muttered, rescuing up his great strong hand and wrenching a huge overhang ing branch from its place and speedily converting it into a wa!k : ng stick. “Yes, I’m on business for the King, the Kirg of all around here, the birds, the trees, the flowers and the bnmble-bees. He sent me, Ho did. Parson said so t’other Sunday. He said the King sent out his messengers to do his work. He sent out twelve on ’em once’t, an’ they wasn’t to take no money in their purse nor nothin’ to eat. He sent me, ’cause I hain’t got no money an’ hain’t had nothin’ to eat all day.” He strode onward, murmuring his thoughts as he went, nntil after a time he came upon a public road which rau through the wood. A placard fastened to a tree by the roadside attract ed his attention, aud he paused to consider it. He conld not read, but as his eyes were fixed upon the printed characters the tinkle of a cow-bell was heard down the road, and presently a cow came into view, fol lowed by the short, sturdy figure and round, freckled face of Tommy Brock. Tommy was flourishing a large stick and shouting at the cow in his efforts to keep her in a proper homeward direc tion. As he came np he exclaimed: ‘ Hello, Nat! What are you doin’ here ?” “ Fm on business for the King,” re plied Nat, with dignity. “ On business for — who ?” asked Tommy, in surprise. “For the King. He sent me,” said Nat, again. “That’s his orders there, I take it,” pointing to the placard. “What is it, Tommy V” “That? Why that’s only an adver tisement,” answered Tommy, hip eyes opening wider in his astonishment. “ It says, ‘Go to Tiacey’sHalf-Way ho^use for a square meal.’” \ “ Yes, I know’d it 1 I know’d it!” ex claimed Nat, exnltingly. “The King said take no money nor nothin’ to eat, an’ He’d take keer of me. He says ‘Go,’ an’ I’ll obey orders,” and instantly his tall figure was moving swiftly down the road. Tommy gazed arter him a minute in bewildered silence, and then exclaimed emphatically as he turned away: “ My! but ain’t he cracked 1” ( With rapid steps Nat hurried forward, swinging his hage stick and talking to himself. He had taken the placard as a veritable command to go to Tracey’s, and thitherward he directed his steps. It was not the tirst time he had /been there. On previous occasions when he passed that way he had been kindly treated by Mrs. Tracey, and pe if haps that bad something to do with theVlao- rity of his movement, and ha hastened down the road till it brought him [to a small stream, on the back of which stood a sawmill. Mr. Traoey.i the owner of the Half-way house, was en gaged at work here, and he turned Aside to speak to him. “ I’m On business for the King, and I’m going’ to your house,” heannounoec with the dignified gravity that belongec to his royal commission. “ On business for the King, and goin to my house, eh Y' answered the person addressed, a good-natnred smile cross ing his kindly face. “ Well. I reckon that’s a high honor to me. You’ve got a tramp af jre you, though, Nat—a good seven miles.” “ T must obey orders,” replied Nat, simply. '■ luxi'a right-obey orders. Well, if you do go tell Mrs. Tracey I’ll be home to-morrow night. Tell her, too, not to bo nneasy about that money bein’ in the house, ’cause 1’il see to it when come.” “ What money’s that?” a?kedn fellow workman as Nat turned away. “ My pension. My claim was allowed last week, and I got my money—five hundred dollars—■yesterday. I was foolish not to put it in tho bank right off. but I didn t, and as I didn’t have rlin© to go to town yesterday I had to leave it at home. I reckon it’s tafe enough, till to morrow night, and then—’' “ Hist!” interrupted his companion, suddenly. “What’s that r” Tracey paused to listen. “ I didn’t hear anything,’’ he paid. “ I thought I heard some one over there,” pursued tho other, pointing to a large, high pile of boards u few feet distant—the beards being piled in form o; a square, with a large cavity in the center. “Most likely it was rats, enough.” “ More likely to be rats than anything else, there s so many about here,” an Swered Tracey. Then he added, jocularly t “ Maybe, though, it’s them burglars that’s been plajin mischief ’round these parts for the last week or so—maybe thry’ro stowed away in that pile of lumber. My 1 if I really be lieved that l ! d be uneasy myself, for the chaps would have heard all I said about my pension.” “What burglars is that?” inquired the other. “ What burglars ? Why, man, don’t you read the papers? Why, only yes terday the sheriff and his deputies rode by my house on the hunt for ’em. Last Saturday night they broke into Lawyer Burke s house in the village and carried off about a hundred dollars, and then on Sunday night thay got into the rail road station, broke open the safe, and made off with about three hundred more. That’s the biggest of their hauls, though they’ve entered several other places.” The conversation w*as continued on this topic for a few minutes, and the i dropped. Neither of the men thought it worth while to investigate the cause of the noise, and they pursued th-.-ir work for a short time and were then called over to the other side of the mill. Just as they disappeared a face peered over the top of ths baard pile from the inside, followed a moment later, and prcsSJIj two rough, vuiaiuuiis— looking men came into view, and seeing they were unobserved, sprang quickly to the ground and hastened into the forest. “Close shave that, as bein’ as we was hid there all lasltnight and all day till now,” said one, as he pushed through the underbrush. “ Yes ; I thought as once them mill chaps was a cornin’ to look,” responded the other. “Good for ’em as they didn’t, an’ took us for rats ; ’cause the p’iicfc be on the lookout now an’ we don’t want to use no shootin’ irons an’ make things too hot. We must move out lively from ’ere, Bill.” “ Not till we get that ’ere pension,” answered B.ll, significantly. “ That lay-out were as good as pitched at us, an’ it’d be a pity not to take it. ’Sides, the gov’ment owes me a pension for all the time I’ve lost in jails and prisons, an’ this ere’s a good chance to get it. I knows where the crib is, ’cause we stopped there last week for somethin’ to eat, don’t you mind? This fellow that owns it was there at the time. There is nobody bat a woman an’ two little uns, an’ they’re easy fixed, an’ there ain’t no other house nigh.” “ Bat there’s that ’ere other chap as said as he was goin’ there ?” “ Him ? He’s crazy, an’ if he goes’ there at all he’ll only stop a bit an move on. A tap on the head T1 settle him, anyway, if he’s there—but then he won’t be there.” Daring this time Nat was not idle. His tall form, with long and steady stride, was hastening forward “on busi ness for the King.” It did not occur to him what he shonld do when he reached Tracey’s and had been sup plied with food. At present he was “obeying orders”—and beyond that his thought did not go. It was indeed a long walk he had undertaken, and it was just at dusk that he reached his destination. The Half-way bonse was a lonely hostelry, situated at the inter section of two roads, with no other house in sight, and was a common stopping-place for persons passing to and from the city. Nat stepped boldly upon the broad piazza in front, and with fall consciousness oi his right walked unhesitatingly into the pleasant sitting-room. Mrs. Tracey came for ward to meet him. “ Why, Nat, is that you?” “Yes’m,”he answered, gravely. “I was told to come here an’ get a square meal. The King sent me.” “ The King sent you ? Well I guess I’ll have to give you a supper then,” said she. “ And by the way, Nat, did you see my husband on your way here ?” “ Yes’m ; and he said for me to tell you he’d be home to-morrer night, an’ for you not to be uneasy ’bout that money.” “ Oh, dear 1 I did so hope he’d come this evening,” she sighed. She was indeed uneasy on account of the money in the house. She had slept but little the preceding night for think ing of it, and had worried, about it all through the day, and now another lonely night was before her. As she was preparing supper for her guest another thought came to her. Oould she not induce Nat to stop there for the night ? His notion of wandering made it an uncertain request and even if he remained, with his beclouded intellect, he could not be depended on in case of trouble. Still he wonld be company, and perhaps he might aid her—she prayed for that—if she needed help. “Nat,” she said, as she poured out a glass of milk for him, “won’t you stay here to night ?' “ I don’t know whether it b® orders,” he answered, uncertainly. “ Parson said the King sent out His messengers, an’ they wasn’t to take no money nor nothin’ to eat, an* I don’t know if it be right to stop.” “ Oh, yes, it is,” replied Mrs. Traoey, catching at once an idee of his thoughts. “ I heard what the parson said, too. When the King’s messenger entered a house he was to abide there— that is tr stop. Don’t yon remember f’ Nat considered the proposition. “Yes’m, that’s His orders. I’ll stop,” he said. “And, Nat,” pnraued the lady, ren flered eager by her success) “ there’* another thing the King said—you heard it at Bund ay-school. He«aid, ‘ Buffer little children to come unto me ’—that is such little Children as mine there,” pointing to them as they stood at her side. *• And the King said, too, ‘ Who soever shall offend one of these little ones it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.’ The King doesn’t wish any harm to come to His little ones, in any way—you remember that?’ “Yes’m,” replied Nat, absently. “Well, then)” continuedMrs.^Tracey, driving the concluding nail into her ar gument, “ if any bad, wicked men should come here to-night and try tc hart me or these little ones that belong to the King, you would help us, wouldn't you?” She waited anxiously for the reply. Nat looked at her vaguely for a mo ment, and then his eyes wandered aim lessly about the room, and then back to her. Finally he said, quietly : “ The King sent me. I’ll obey or ders.” How far he nnderstood she did not know, and all her effort could draw out no more definite reply, and with that she was obliged to be content. As the evening grew late she provided her guest with a sleeping place, in an ad joining room, by throwing a few quilts on the floor—for Nat would sleep no where else—and then she lay down, without cmdressing, on a bed beside her children. Bat it was a long time before slumber visited her troubled spirit. As for Nat, no thonght of worry or anxiety for the fntnre was on his mind, and he “slept the sleep of the just” and uis dreams were peacefnl. Bat after time those dreams became dis turbed and discordant — a voice seemed to be calling him from his King, and presently he awakened with a start. “Nat! help! Nat, the King wants you !” came in smothered tones from the other room. In an iratint he sprang lightly to his feet, and grasping his stick he strode forward and opened the door. A fearful struggle met his view as he entered. Two rough, evil-looking men were there —one holding Mrs. Tracey, tho other the children—and the villains were evi dently trying to bind and gag their vic tims. As Nat witnessed the scene his tall form seemed to tower yet higher, and a strange, fierce light gleamed from his eyes. “I belong to the King!” he thun FACTS AND COMMENTS. The St. Louis Glob*-Democrat that the number of women who vote is rapidly increasing, and the constitutional justice of —— —. mands, but believes that “» work of evolution must go on within the JMC before the requisite growth is attaiisdj even to enable it to be said that wo own- kind wants to vote.” How immense are the transportation interests of the United States. There are about 100,000 miles of railroad^ in the country, the investment value of which is $4 600,000,000. In 188» it carried 250,000,000 tons of freight, wfife* out counting passengers, mails, baggpC* and express goods. According to cen sus of 1880 the railroads employ 410,240 persons. A number of speculative merchants of Norway have obtained the right of cutting blocks from the great glacier on the Senjen island. The glacier is abont 120 miles square, and the distance from its border to the sea is only two miles. It is believed that th# ice can be profit ably exported. Blocks have been ear* ried to the city of Bergen, and Mm quality of the ice is said to be good. It can be advertised as of the crop of phe year 1. More than one thousand deaths an reported as having resulted last yeat from accidents in mines in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The average of such deaths during the last eight years is one to every 464 per sons employed. Fall of rook from the roofs, but more particularly from the sides of workings, continues to be the most fruitful source of these disasters; and there seems good reason to beliave that a large proportion might be nre- vented by a sufficient provision iOf timber supports. BEGGABS >N'D TBAMPS. An Egyptian correspondent giveethe f jllowing interesting gossip about 4he present khedive of Egypt and his brothers: “ Ismail Facha, the fonher khedive of Egypt, brought up his eons, of whom he had five, in a pecu liar manner. Tewfik, as the heir ap parent, and now khedive, was educated in Egypt and is a bigoted Mussulnfui- The second son, Prince Housman, was brought up in France, and is a thorough Parisian in all his tastes. Prince HaUm, the third son, graduated at the Berlin anivemty and loves his lager beer ind tobacco as well as any German; indeed he is an officer of the Gorman army. He is said to be the ablest of all the sons of the late khedive. Prince Ibrahim % a thorough Englishman. He studies at Woolwich, eats roast beef, drinks Bias’ ale, and affects bulldogs. The fifth pon is a boy of thirteen, and is at a college in Turin, Italy. Such is the polyglot family of the late khedive. Hi./or At this unexpected intrusion one of the burglars released his bold of Mrs. Tracey, and sprang forward with an oath to meet him. But it was in vain. The great stick was whirled in the air, and then oame down with fearful force on the head of the villain, and he sank senseless to the floor. The remaining rurglar hastened to his comrade’s as sistance, but he was like a child in the rands of a giant, and in a moment he, too, was helpless and motionless. Nat stooped and drew the two insensible or ms toward him. “Now bring them ropes, and I’ll rang a”—he pansed, and left the sen tence nnfinished. “ Bat there ain’t no millstones ’boat here to hang ’round their necks!” he added, looking up be wildered. “Do you b’lieve a big rock would do? I must obey orders.” “ No, I don’t believe a rook woulddo,” replied Mrs. Tracey, smiling in spite of rer alarm. “ But they will be coming o presently; I would just tie their rands and feet and leave them until morning.” “Yes’m, so I will. Tbo King said tie em hand and foot—that his orders. They won’t offend His little ones any more,” and in a few minutes Nat had them safely secured. I need not tell of the night that fol- owed, of how Nat kept sleepless guard over his captives, and of how, when morning oame and help came with it, the burglars were safely lodged in the county jail. All that is easily surmised. But at last Nat was a hero—not only in ris own eyes but in the eyes of all others. He bore his honors meekly and with dignity, as a right belonging to a servant of the King. He accepted the numerous congratulations and hand shakings, wondering, perhaps, what it all meant, and replying to the questions heaped upon him with the simple state ment: “1 just obeyed orders.” Nothing, however, conld induce him to accept any reward for his services. The royal command was to take no bread, no money in his purse, aud he would not But Nat did not lack for friends after that. He still continued his wander ing, and, as tho story spread, hom^s and hearts were open to him every where. But it was at Traoey’s that he was more especially welcomed, and as the years came and went it was noticed that his visits became more frequent and his stays more prolonged. Indeed, as Tracey expresses it: “ He’ll get his orders to come here and die yet, I reckon ; an’ he’s welcome to all the care we can give him. An’ I just believe that away up in that other world we read about he’ll be as clear- beaded as anybody, and in genuine earnest will be forever ‘on business for the King.’ ”—Erski/ia M. Hamilton, Our Continent. artificial sea in the interior of Ah ice has been abandoned. The commisa on appointed to investigate the project >as reported that the inevitable cost wot ild be out of all proportion to the proble matical advantages, being somewhfere in the neighborhood of $250,000,000. Aside from the impracticable nature oi the enterprise it was reported that sev eral positive losses might be expected to result from it. One savant declared that by the influx of the sea an immense number of fresh-wafte wells would be filled np and rendered useless, to the great detriment of the people on the, neighboring slopes who are now in the habit of resorting to them. Another maintained tha. when the sea was formed tho breezes and spray from it would destroy the vegetation around, and prove specially hurtful to the date palm trees which are nowa great source of profit and give the most agreeable shade in those arid regions. When the Duke of Sutherland was visiting the United States recently he went to the remarkable line of farms owned by Colonel James Yonng, Middle- town, Pennsylvania. He was delighted, and admitted that he had expected to see no snch agricultural perfection in the United States, The colonel’s crops now out embrace 310 acres of wheat, 410 of grass, 280 of corn, 270 of oats, twenty-four of tobacco, twenty-one of potatoes, etc. There are eleven farms, and full sets of farm buildings, thirteen barns, and the whole body embraces 1,440 acres of land, running along the pike two and a half miles. The last i ear there wers 243 head of fat cattle. ’he herd of Alderney embraces forty- six pnre-bred animals, a number of them imported. Colonel Young has recently been offered $3,000 for five cows. The animals are groomed and cleaned like race-horses. The duke gave a cordial invitation to Colonel Young to visit him in England and par take of his hospitality. t/i Slow Work. As an illustration of the slowness with which public business before Con gress sometimes goes forward the Washington correspondent of the Bal timore Sun tells the following : Some time since Philip Reich, of Frederick, Md., came to this city on a visit. He is eighty-two years of age, though well preserved. In talking with Represent ative Urner he said ho thonght that Con gress was abont as slow now as at any time in the past. Paid he: “When I was in Washington before, in 1814, the claim of R K. Meade, the father of General Meade, who commanded at Gettv sbarg, was under consideration. It was a Spanish claim of some kind for damages and losses he sustained in Spain. After being away for sixty- eight years I returned, and whatcasedo you think was under consideration when I got into the capitol ? The same claim of R. K. Meade.” That which ie better to be endured may be sweet to be remembered. The White Man’s Bi? Moon. Mr. H. E. Thompson, electrician, of St. Paul, has jnot returned from the Missouri, where he went to mount an electric light on the Rosebud, of the Conlson line of M ; s6curi and Yellow stone steamers. Mr. Thompson tells some interesting stories cf the effects of the white man’s electric light medicine on the noble red man at Fort Berthold. Upon arriving at the post a large assort ment of redskins, their sisteis, their consins and their aunts were assembled on the shore in fine shape. While con templating the new-fangled light, which seemed to eclipse the full-orbed moon, Mr. Thompson turned the light full upon the gaping crowd with s weird and picturesque effect. The astonished aborigines were paralyzed fora moment, and they set np a dismal chant, laydown and rolled over and pawed up the sage bush, and made the ambient air tremble with their antics and articulations. They were finally assured that the big medicine of the white man was harm less, and then they assumed an attitude of quiescent bewilderment. They congregated upon the shore and gazed npon the illuminated surround ings with mingled emotions of awe and admiration, expressing their feelings in deep, guttural accents. At a wood-yard np the river the light was turned in fail force npon the pile, and the dusky owner sought a hiding-place, from which he oould not be induced to emerge to negotiate with the clerk fur the sale of his stock on hand. He, however, ventured to hold up hie hand with three fingers un flexed, to indicate that $3 per cord wonld take the truck. The machine mounted on the Rosebud was 6,000-candle power, and it ie no wonder the superstitions natives were stricken with terror.—8t. Paul (Hum.) Prm$. suit of what they term a day-swora. j cliff of rookg( whose wall* we-e i burning, and upon two square pedestals tl,wtr T .— i—^'""-t s'* the altar, 0MM ef tli* iBseDl*** Tricks Resarted to fey Woll-Known Phlladplpblo Cbaractera —Hew the Vooabonda Live. While the more aristocratic beggars and tramps are taking their yearly sum mer sojourn at the seaside and enjoying the cool delights of the briny breeze, their town-abiding brethren, says the Philadelphia Times, are not by any mooiio having such a bad time of it as any one unacquainted with the business might suppose. The ordinary man takes his two or three weeks’ vacation and then returns to the simmering houses and feet-blistering pavements for the rest of the hot season. The men dicant, however, has his time at his own disposal, and can practice his avocation in the cool parts of the aay and remain in the park or a pleasant cellar when the sun is at its height. This city is the home of about five hundred persons who have no visible means of support, but who depend on casual charity for a subsistence. These some under the head of beggars. In addition to this number there is a regular floating population of abont seven hundred, namely, tramps whose stay in the city rarely exceeds one week- The native beggars, whose methods are various, for the past few years have been steadily decreasing. Three years ago a census was taken which showed that they numbered sixteen hundred. This remarkable diminution is said to be due to several oanees. First, the steady opposition and legal action taken against begging by different societies, among which the charity organization has been prominent. Secondly, the general sentiment against indiscrimi nate almsgiving which now pervades the community. ’J his is shown by the fact that a pleader for charity who for merly reaped a rich harvest in coin of the realm, instead of this now collects in a day several qaires of cards on which ar printed notices advising him if he is a bona fide starveling to apply at the office of a ward society, which, after thoroughly investigating his cuss and becoming convinced that he is de serving, will see to his wants. The third reason assigned by those who know for tho decrease of the sub jects of pauperdom is ^remarkable, and of a nature likely to conflict with the average understanding. It is that the relief by the board of guardians, which formerly cost $50,000 a year, has been done away with. This snm is said to have been mest swallowed np by per sons who were able to work aud who would not. Since its abolition they have had to. The la^t aud possibly the best reason is that the general prosper ity of the city has been < f late ou the rise. With regard to tho beggars them selves, a great many adopt the branch of the trade of blind men or alleged blind men. These reap the harvests, often bringing home from $4 to $5 as the re- what they term a day’s work. sight, but as a general rule they are merely afflicted with some disease which, while materially affecting the appearance of the optics, does not to any extent encroach on their sphere of usefulness. The “twilight beggar” is just abont this time of the year thinking of opening an account with tho savings bank, so great are his earnings. This gentleman, or child, as he more fre qnently is, just about the supper hour knocks at the door or rings tne bell of some fashionable house and with a tearful face asks assistance, not only for himself, but for his mother with consuiaption, his father with a broken arm and dll his various sisters and oonsins and aunts suffering from every known disease. As a rule he is successful, for he chooses the most op portune time for his visit. The hearts of the inmates are soft j ust at that par ticular hour, because they have just been or are in the process of being gas- tronomically satisfied. The best reason of all, however, is that he cannot ba referred to some charitable society, as he pleads that their offices are closed. Sometimes he is told that if he leaves his address the proprietress of the house will call on him that evening with plentiful supplies of the good things of this life. Immediately his abode is inquired after he sees that to get anything in that quarter is hope less and gives an address most remote from his neighborhood. Very often the number tendered is one which does not. exiat.and as a curious coincidence it is related by Dr. J. W. Walk, secretary of the society for or ganizing charity, that in two instances numbers were given on Fairmount ave nue which if extant at all wonld be in the very center of the penitentiary. In some cases nuobers are given where there are churches or police stations. Besides the ordinary class of beggars who beg on the street there is the g^te- beggar, who is usually a deserving child or woman. Sae applies at the gates for cold pieces, which as a general thing she eagerly devours. Some of these, however, are regularly chartered by the proprietors of emporiums on Alaska and Si. Mary streets, and what they collect is assorted and suld at a very cheap figure per plate. Taking the be^gais all around, they make a good deal of mrney and are often thrifty. It does not pay them, however, to wear their parses on their sleeves, end their di lapidated appearances are merely put on. Dr. J. Walk, speaking yesterday in regard to the charity organization of whiuh he is general secretary, said that the idea of that body is that in an en lightened community begging should be abolished. The able-bodied mendi cants should be placed in the house of correction and the sick in hospitals. Nearly all the beggars have fixed abodes and regular hunting grounds. Wilnelmina Rousseau, a deformed French woman, who hawks pencils on Arch street, near Thirteenth, is one of the most incorrigible of the class who usually beg under the pretext that they are doing business. Her stock in trade consists of three lead pencils and a small saucer, in which she often collects as much as $3 in a very short time with out giving anything in return. Her case has often been referred to the French consul, but he refuses to send her home as he claims that she cannot be classed with beggars, it is hopeless to prose cute her, and she will have to be leit in future to her own devices. Philadel phia does not boast of any millionaire beggars, like London or New York, and any of them possess money they keep it remarkably quiet. Antonio Oidella, a blind Italian, who trades on his afflic- it ie said owna a farm of two bun- ed acre#. He resides on South th street, in the neighborhood of betoh of mendicants who have small in savings banks. There is a man named Henry Stirling, a well-known impoeer on phyridan*. His only capital is a rare affliction. He has besides imposition been guilty of tricks to get money which have .caused the police lately to be on bis trail. Wil liam Eagard, who changes hisresidencj every few days, is tolerably known as a begging letter writer, and he inditts more than half the epistles in use in th-; city. He is gifted with a versatile pe i and a happy, appropriate style Pet Murphy, who reaps harvest of dimes and dollars in the Twentieth ward, is said to have accumulated plenty of money through parading the etreefr with a glib tongue and plenty of as surance. There ie a wide field for investigation when one comes to tramps. They are nearly all unskilled laborers and quir« all intemperate. They commenced lifo as carpenters, bricklayers or mechanic*, at which they were not successes, and when there came a period of business depression they were naturally the flr«t discharged. They tried probably to get work, and, after failing, they drifted into idle habits and gradually became what they are. Emigration is also a good deal to blame in this respect. Men land here withont acquaintances and soon take to the road. Most of the tramps come here from Wilmington and Baltimore, remain a week and then make for Pittsburg or New York. They chnoee tho railroad lines to walk on chiefly because the bustle aud passing traffic touches the romantic part of their composi tion. They steal rides either by laying down flat cn the tops of freight oars or standing on the buffers. A great many are annually killed or maimed through their choice of this mode of travel. As soon as a tramp arrives in Philadel phia be looks aronnd for a good square meal, after sating which he is a gentle man till the pangs of hunger once more prey on him. Directly* he has dined he looks around for a drink. Sleeping a tramp finds difficult to provide for. People, as a general thing, don’t like tramps lying aronnd. At the Catherine honse of indastry be can get a bed for one night, but he is never allowed to return. There are also a good many flve-cent lodging- houses in the Twenty-third and Twenty- fourth wards. The last resort is the station-house. A Fearful Swim for Life. A correspondent, writing from El Dorado Canon, Nev., savs : Another oi our old-timers has been swallowed up by the treaehprons Colorado. Barney Coleman and Benjimin Gooch, accom panied by two Indians, started up the river one morning recently in a skiff for the purpose of catching drift-wood. After reaching a point between twelve and fifteen miles np the river the boat, becoming unmanageable, was drawn into an eddy and disappeared in an in stant. The skiff at the time was near a -two hundred feet in height, and the Indians, observing that the eddy was about swallowing the boat and crew, jumped out and clung to the rocks and Gorch endeavored to do the same thing after them. He secured a slight hold to the perpendicular sides of the cliff, clung to it only for a moment, then fell into the water and was seen no more. Coleman sprang from the stern of the skiff out into the river and got beyond the eddy, where be watched for the ap pearance of the boat. He had not long to wait, but it seemed to him ages, when he caught sight of it, bottom up ward, a few yards down the river, when he swam after it, overtaking and cling ing to it. In this condition, for three milea,‘-he went shooting; past rocks, plowing through breakers and whirling about in eddies, when he came face to face with one of those roaring rapids and treaoh erous eddies so numerous and so dread ful in the Colorado. There was no time to lose. Another chance between life aud death, and that chance perhaps was the only one in a thousand. The resolu tion was formed one moment and ex- eeucod the next. The skiff was in the midst of the rapids, standing on end ; another breaker and over il, went. This was an indescribable moment to Coleman, whose sole reliance had deserted him, as he felt a prisoner in the hands of death, and thongh he had scarcely known his strength before here was a desperate opportunity for its test, and he says that he felt that he was a mere straw at the mercy of a wave one second and an eddy the next. Here was waged a fierce and pro tracted straggle for life between a powerful man and skillful swimmer, weighing 225 pounds, and first a whirl pool and then a rapid, whose force and size and danger can never be realizad except by the man whose life was trembling in the balance, but courage and human strength at last prevailed, aud the brave man swam on over rapids and through whirl pools for the distance ot three of as perilous miles as was prob ably ever won by man. Who can ima ?- ine his feelings as he reached in safety and crawled npon the mer bank, where he lay for some time completely exhausted ? As soon as he bad regained sufficient strength, Coleman set out for tho canon, and, shoeless aud naked, after a tramp of six miles over the bar ren, rocky mountains and through dee;> canons of bumiug sand in the heat of a broiling snn, he arrived, his feet bleeding and fearfully lacerated by tho hharp rocks. The Diet Fiend. There is a man who has made up his mind to keep his health good by eating the right sort of food iu proper quan tities and with the right kind of masti cation. Resolution sits upon his brow, his eyes turn scornfully on his fellow men and he deliberately and with mal ice aforethought sits with superbly folded arms in the restaurant, painfully working his month as if he were a type of Sampson's celebrated jawbone en gaged in the duty of slaying a bit cf brown bread. He becomes a nuisance to his landlady, or Lis wife; he buys fish, which he eats for his brain, and straggles iu the morning with harsh oatmeal aud sour baked apples, chewing, chewing, chewing, while casting con- temptuons glances aronnd upon the dis gusted people who are not so good and are not going to be to healthy as he i:* going to be. He even turns his toes out, abhors butter and walks on the healthiest side of the street. His chil dren receive no candy and his wife re ceives a scolding because she does not live up to the laws of health. ' He becomes pale, fretful and morose, and says of a hegthy man, '‘He lives for h ■ stomach,” Wnile he is dying for his.—- Nme YorTt tier aid, Chinese Babies. Let us suppose that the solemn bath appointed for the third day is over, which would seem to be almost a Chi nese baptism, and the mother to be convalescent. If the offspring be a girl there will probably be no rejoicing, but if a boy the mother will go in state to the temple frequented by her family and offer thanks to Tien How, the queen of heaven. The only time it was our fortune while in China to see a natiye lady of any standing was on such an oc casion. A wife of Howqua, the eon of the celebrated Hong merchant, had gone to the temple of Honam to return thanks for the birth of a son. The shrine in the temple which she was visiting had been founded by the elder Howqua in honor of his ancestors; it ie a lofty hall, with roof open to the beams, closed in the rear and at the sides, but in front open' ing with richly carved doors on a raised terrace surrounded by a stone balustrade and overlooking a square turfed inolo- sure containing two or three fine speci mens of the Chinese banyan, or Ficus religiose, and a pond of water covered with the bread green leaves aud rose- tipped flowers of the lotus, the sacred plant of Bnddha, who is often repre sented as seated on its open flower. Crossing this pond and skirting it were a bridge and gallery of massive stone carving corresponding with the balnstrades, and communicating with the terrace. On the opposite side of the gallery was seen the roar of another shrine, colored of a deep vermilion like the one in front, with its high arched roof sweeping down like the carved ontline of a Tartar tent (from which the Chinese style of arohiteoture is supposed to be borrowed), and adorned with dragons, birds and dol phins in glazed pottery of the brightest colors. Down either side stretched a line of gloomy cloisters communicating with the rest of the building. At one end of the terrace were two or three small tables arranged with viands placed npon them, and Hurrounded by a con siderable party of Chinese, among whom we noticed several females standing, ev idently in attendance npon some lady, as in China the servants are almost in variably of the other sex. Knowing the scruples of the Chinese against ad mitting fbreigners into the presence of the female members of their families, we turned back, and were on point of leaving that part temple, no little disappointed being nnable to see the whole of the building, when two members of the group, one of whom was a son of How qua, oame forward and requested us, if we wished, to continue dur examination. We did so. The shrine at which the ceremony was going on had been decked with flowers, whilst on the long counter- like altar in front of the figure of the goddess, between the jars of porcelain and brocze half filled with sandalwood ashes in which sticks of incense were in front of the amids of fruit and sweetmeats. On either side of these pedestals were two of smaller size, on each of which was placed a book apparently of re ligions service, and by its side a small wand and a hollow, red, kidney-shaped gourd, which when struck gave a hollow and not nnmnsioal sound, each blow npon it marking the repetition of a prayer. These, as it were, formed the lecterns of the officiating priests, and between them, lacing the central vase on the high altar, was placed a. cushion and a mat on which the fair devotee might kneel and perform the kotou, or ceremony of kneeling and touching the ground with the head at certain periods during the service. At either side of the central ^oor of the shrine stood a large bronze vase heaped with silvered paper formed into boxes abont the size and shape of steel-pen boxes, and emblematical of bars of Sycee silver, which is horned at the conclusion of the ceremony as an offer ing to the Queen of Heaven. On passing out of the shrine, still ac companied by the two Ohinese who had joined us, we passed near the banqute- ing party, when the lady rose, supported by two of her servants, and, crossing her hands, saluted us in the Ohinese fashion. Of her beauty lean say nothing; neither my companion nor myself oould remem ber anything save a face painted a la Chinoise, and hair tied np in the usual tea-pot form, dressed with magnificent pearls, jade ornaments, aud natural flowers. The golden lilies, as the in habitants of the flowery kingdom call ! the crippled feet of the higher classes of their women, and the splendidly em broidered robes, attracted onr attention far more than the eyes and features, which doubtless ought to have been our only consideration: It is after this festival—not always, of course, celebrated with the magnifi cence we have described—that the rela tives of the child present it either with plate or bangles of silver or gold, on which are inscribed the characters sig nifying long life, honor and felicity. It is also at this period that it receives its “milk name,” or the pet name by which it is known in its family, the name by which it is known to others being only given to it at tha completion of its ionrth year, when its education is sup posed to commence. Wasted Heroism. If DeLong had died for an eternal principle, and if from his icy grave there conld spring the seed of the martyr, the diary found by his dead body would not be less heart-breaking, but it would have a most tremendous power. As it is—a here is the use of all this? This little company, starving, sick, frozen, dying, struggle day after day over hnge tracts of endless snows. The winds drive them, the sunshine blinds them. The surgeon’s knife cuts away parts ol their frozen bodies. They drag each other over these vast and cruel fields. They break through the ice on frozen lakes. Their food sickens them, and then it fails. Far off in these Arctio regions, one by one they lie down and die, and with broken voices the group, growing smaller and smaller, reads the service, not for the dead, but for the sick. They bury their dead under the ice in the water, but at last, too weak to even do that, they stagger with them out of sight and lay them down. And what do these heroio men—Franklin and Kane and Da Long, and all this company dead in the snow—leave but a memory of bravery, of heroism, all spent in a frutile search for a shadow!—Our Continent. After being thrown from his berth as the steamer Wilder struck a snag near Chattanooga, Tennessee. John L Dot. ten, who had been deaf and dumb for sixteen years, recovered his speech and hearing. The Judge and the Tanner. About thirty years ago Judge Cincin- natus Peeples found it necessary to or der a tanner out of his law office in Hal] county. The tanner was a poor, shift less fellow, named Wilson, and shortly after drifted to Atlanta, where he so- cured work at fifty cents a dav. In 186$ Judge Peeples went to New York on im- E ortant financial business for the State. [e was directed to the great banking house of R. T. Wilson A Co. He sent in his card and after waiting a while was ushered into an elegant office. A fine-looking man introduced himself as Wilson and reminded the jndge that he was the poor tanner he had ordered out of hie office manv years ago. Judge Peeples, thoroughly astonished, never dreamed that this ex tanner was at the head of the bank, but thought he was probably related to the proprietor and had secured a clerkship. Mr. Wilson invited the judge to dine with him, and at 5 o’clock the judge found himself in one of the finest houses on Fifth avenue. While await ing his host a superb Isdy entertained him, and Judge Peeples was over whelmed with the consciousness that the day laborer had really become the great banker. He then became nneasy for fear he shonld drop some allusion to the hnmble- origin of the husband of the splendid lady to whom he was talking. At length she said: “Judge Peeples, where do you think I spent the two happiest years of my life ?” The judge thought of Paris, Saratoga and Venice,| but was hesitating, when Mrs. Wilson said: “ Why at Papa Wilson’s log cabin in Hall county, where my husband took me when we were first married.”—At lanta Constitution. Carieos Case of Somnambulism. A curious psychological study IM afforded by the case of a young lad of fourteen years, whose performances when asleep are certainly marvelous. Tho lad's name is Martin Frobifeoher, and it is s»id of him that from hi* earli est boyhood he has been the subject of somnambnlism. He has a decided talent for drawing, in which art he ha* lately become quite interested. This exei cise has taken nob a hold upon the boy’s mind that he rises in the niffpt in a complete an con scions state, s&d will continue to work on an unfinished piece of drawing with as much skill and dex terity ae though he were awake. The other night he got np and drew a head from a cast which he had drawn on paper during the previous day on the wall of hia chamber. In conversation with the boy’s father he said: “I can understand how a somnambulistic subject can go through certain mechanical motions, but it is inconceivable to me how. the boy is able to draw with such perfect attention to every detail—to put expres sion into an eye, for instance, and spirit into a face. He exhibited some very clever drawings by the boy, partially -dor*, as he dsolarrf. whitaRfcMsMMfas fellow w*s in this remarkable condition. He is very desirous that the case should have the light of a scientific investiga tion. Smoking and Shaving in Japan. Smoking in Japan, says a correspond- eat, ie a national custom, followed by men, women and children. Thev smoke on all occasions, even as the man at the crematory did. Do they transact busi ness together, the bargain concluded, they sit down aronnd a charcoal br«zier and draw forth their pipes, which hold a piece of tobicoo the size of a pea, and allows them abont two good whiffs. The filling and refilling, the knocking of the little balls of lighted tire into their hands to relight the new pipeful with, affords them occupation for th-.ir hands while their tongues run unceas ingly. Shopmen, bookkeepers, work men and officials, one and all, mnst smoke, and one never sees Japs in the street or moving aronnd anywhere without their pipes and tobacco pouches, which look, like wallets tacked in their girdles. The tobacco is native and very poor indeed. In Hiogo we noticed more of the shaving of heads than in Yokohama^ Passing along the streets one sees children with a single tuit of hair on the middle of the head, others with ^ clean-shaven patch, and others again with little tufts on each side of theix heads. This universal shaving of the children’s heads is to make the hair grow thicker and better. Leading Annies and Navies. STANDING ABXIES OF THE LEADING NATIONS. Annual Ex nations. Russia France.............. Germany bpain Austria Italy Great britain British India, Natives in British Service.... United States Enlisted Men. 788,000 471,000 420.000 323,000 296,000 200,000 192,000 123,826 27,976 pense. 1134,216,00(1 100,000,000 92,674, OOflf 49 147,00fl| 60,680,000 37.984,000 83,800,000 100,000,000 30,250,000 Total 2,768,838 $ 688,641,000 STANDING NAVIES OF THE LEADING NATIONS. NATIONS. 3reat Britain.. Prance Eiusaia Spam ... Italy United States.. Germany Austria ....... Brazil.... ....■ Bvreden Total. No. ofli- icers,ac a- No. Annual Ex- men, etc Ships. pens®. 68,800 4C0 $52,935,000 47.600 226 40,799,000 42,163: 150 20 000,000 12,038 138 6,536.000 10,800 66 7,544,003 8,250 139 15,022,000 7,365 66 11,165,000 8,014 68 4,000,000 6,184 63 9,994,000 6,141 141 1,853,010 _ 207.271 1,451 $ 169,948,000 Djspepsla Among Fanners. Professor Goodman Kays: Aside fron other evils, dyspepsia is only too com mon among farmers and families, when one would think they are the very per sons to be free from it, living as they are supposed to do in the open air and withont the harrassment of exciting business and confinement to close labor. The medical experts declare that the great prevalence of this complaint and affections of the liver among farmers North and South, West aud East, are owing mainly to too great consumption of salt meats, pork especially, badly baked bread, and the constant use of the frying pan—an American institution co extensive with the spread eagle and star- spangled banner 1 The Belgian government is about to adopt pulverized neat for an army ration. One pound of the article is said to be equal in nutritive power to six pounds of fresh beef. The great seal of Great Britain and Iceland is affixed to yellow wax foe p.ngiiah documents, red for Scotch, and green for Irish.